Requirement of Prefrontal and Midbrain Regions for Rapid Executive Control of Behavior in the Rat

Neuron

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1491-1503

  Duan, Chunyu A ^a   Erlich, Jeffrey C ^a,b   Brody, Carlos D ^a,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI   (China)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; LEARNING CURVE; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT MODEL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; DRUG EFFECTS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCIMOL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GABA AGONISTS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; MUSCIMOL; ORIENTATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 84931099362     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.05.042     Document Type: Article

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